Post meta: contains

Anonymous

#20762

Hello! Based on my experience, the post meta only matches the exact value and I need it to match with a case sensitive “contains”. In my project, I’ve three keywords I need to search for within my post meta/meta_value. These are:

• Brudd på
• Ikke brudd på
• Kritikk

Any ideas on how to solve this? I found this: https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/complicated-custom-meta-field-search-dates-filtering/#post-11792 and this: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/172003/how-to-query-posts-by-meta-keys-and-under-specific-category.
They show how to alter the query to my needs but I must probably create my own dropdown and then check the dropdown value when the form is submitted? Do you have a filter for that?
I’m really craving a documentation that shows all the filters and stuff 🙂

Thanks,
Chris

Ross Moderator

#21011

Hey Chris

S&F 2.0 is coming out soon and with that will be a complete rewrite of the docs 🙂

In regards to your issue, it shouldn’t be case insensitive – I think it will just be an = comparison.

Actually I have an idea it could be – this post meta you want to search, is it serialised? Are you using a plugin to create it?

Thanks

Anonymous

#21311

Hi Ross!

I’m looking forward to the new release 🙂

Sry for the late reply. The post meta is not serialized and is generated by the ACF plugin. Hope this helps.

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